HARVEST OF HOPE, our local growing project is a unique opportunity to eliminate world hunger bringing together farmers, churches and agribusiness to grow a crop and send the proceeds to FRB. FRB’s goal is to support the efforts of the world’s poorest communities to produce or earn enough to feed their families and have a little extra to barter or sell, send their children to school, and to buy staples and basic medicines. During the month of September, you can make a donation to Harvest of Hope and help eliminate world hunger. Place your donation in the morning offering. Checks should be made out to the church with a Harvest of Hope notation.
Harvest of Hope,
the local Foods Resource Bank Growing project, is one of the outreach programs of South Waterloo Church of the Brethren in cooperation with other area churches - is continuing its sixth year! A total of $94,650 has been donated to Foods Resource Bank during the past five years.
Other participating churches include Hammond Avenue Brethren and Immanuel Presbyterian in Waterloo; St Timothy Lutheran and Zion Lutheran of Hudson; 1st Methodist of Cedar Falls; Lewiston Church of the Brethren in Lewiston, MN; and the Cedar River Conference of the ELCA. Foods Resource Bank is a Christian organization committed to addressing hunger in developing countries using sustainable agriculture.
Marlin & Joy Hershey have given presentations of our project and their trip to Guatemala at St. John's Methodist Church in Waterloo and the growing project in Greene, Ia. Barbara Miller will be a part of a lanel for an insight session on Foods Resource Bank at Annual Conference July 3-7.